Penfold Tournament

Penfold Tournament

Tournament information
Location	United Kingdom
Established	1932
Tour(s)	European Tour
Final year	1974
Final champion
Tommy Horton

The Penfold Tournament was a golf tournament on the British PGA tournament circuit. Since the circuit later evolved into the European Tour, the tournament is recognised as an official European Tour event from 1972. It was played between 1932 and 1935, and from 1946 to 1974 at a variety of courses in the United Kingdom. The tournament was sponsored by Penfold Golf and was often played at coastal resorts, whose councils shared the costs.^[1] In 1974, Penfold were taken over by Colgate-Palmolive and continued their sponsorship through the Penfold PGA Championship from 1975 to 1977.

It was generally played as an individual stroke play event. In 1949 there were two qualifying rounds, after which the leading 32 were drawn into 16 pairs, who then played four rounds of knock-out foursomes match play to determine the winning pair. In 1950, it was played at mixed-team match play. 32 professional men and 32 ladies qualified over 36 holes and were then drawn into pairs. These pairs played five rounds of knock-out foursomes match play to determine the winning pair, the final being over 36 holes. It returned to an individual stroke play format for 1951. From 1952 to 1954, it was played at 36 holes of stroke play followed by match play for the top 32 players.

In 1955 Penfold combined their sponsorship with Swallow Raincoats who had supported the Swallow-Harrogate Tournament in 1953 and 1954. The new tournament was known as the Swallow-Penfold Tournament and had a first prize of £1,000 and total prize money of £4,000. The new event had a 72-hole stroke play format. Swallow dropped their sponsorship after the 1966 event but the tournament continued with £4,000 prize money in 1967. Prize money increased to £8,000 in 1971 and finally £12,000 in 1974.

Winners[]

Year	Winner	Country	Venue	Score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share (£)	Ref
Penfold Tournament
1974	Tommy Horton	England		272	1 stroke		2,000	[2]
Penfold-Bournemouth Tournament
1973	Eddie Polland	Northern Ireland	Queens Park Golf Club	281	2 strokes	Doug Sewell	1,500	[3]
1972	Peter Oosterhuis	England	Queens Park Golf Club	285	Playoff	Christy O'Connor Jnr	1,500	[4]
1971	Neil Coles	England	Queens Park Golf Club	284	4 strokes	Doug Sewell Ronnie Shade	1,500	[5]
Penfold Tournament
1970	Bernard Hunt	England		271	2 strokes	Neil Coles	750	[6]
1969	Alex Caygill	England		278	2 strokes	Christy O'Connor Snr	750	[7]
1968	Peter Butler	England		281	Playoff	Dave Thomas	750	[8]
1967		England		275	Playoff		750	[9]
Swallow-Penfold Tournament
1966	Dave Thomas	Wales	Little Aston Golf Club	281	1 stroke	Bernard Hunt	750	[10]
1965	Ángel Miguel	Spain		287	Playoff	Lionel Platts	750	[11]
1964	Peter Alliss	England		293	1 stroke	Alex Caygill Hedley Muscroft	750	[12]
1963	Bernard Hunt	England		272	9 strokes	Peter Butler	1,000	[13]
1962	Harry Weetman	England	(and )	280	3 strokes	Eric Brown	950	[14]
1961	Ken Bousfield	England	(and Southampton Municipal Golf Club)	266	6 strokes	Bernard Hunt	950	[15]
1960	Harry Weetman	England	(and )	271	2 strokes	Christy O'Connor Snr Peter Thomson	1,000	[16]
1959	Peter Butler	England	Barnton, Edinburgh	280	1 stroke	Harry Weetman	1,000	[17]
1958	Harry Weetman	England	Prestwick Golf Club	289	Playoff (18 holes)	Harry Bradshaw	1,000	[18]
1957	Harry Weetman	England	Glasgow Golf Club	270	3 strokes	Peter Alliss Alfonso Angelini Harold Henning Flory Van Donck	1,000	[19]
1956	Eric Lester	England	Barnton, Edinburgh	275	1 stroke	Max Faulkner	1,000	[20]
1955	Christy O'Connor Snr	Ireland	Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club	292	2 strokes	Eric Brown Syd Scott	1,000	[21]
Penfold Tournament
1954	Henry Cotton	England		5 & 4		John Jacobs	400	[22]
1953	Arthur Lees	England		2 up		Ken Bousfield	400	[23]
1952	Eric Brown	Scotland		6 & 5		Laurie Ayton, Jnr	500	[24]
Penfold-Bournemouth Festival of Britain Tournament
1951	Arthur Lees	England	Queens Park Golf Club (and )	278	2 strokes	Sam King	650	[25]
Penfold Tournament
1950	Norman Sutton &	England  England		1 up		Sam King		[26]
1949	John Burton & Max Faulkner	England  England		1 up		Dick Burton Flory Van Donck	200 (each)	[27]
1948	Fred Daly	Northern Ireland	Gleneagles Hotel	273	3 strokes	Ken Bousfield Dai Rees	200	[28]
1947	Dai Rees Norman Von Nida Reg Whitcombe	Wales  Australia  England	Stoke Poges Golf Club	270	Tie		120 (each)	[29]
1946	Norman Sutton	England		283	2 strokes	Jimmy Adams	200	[30]
1940–45: No tournament due to World War II
1938–39: Penfold sponsored the Penfold Professional Golf League
1937: No tournament sponsored
1936: Penfold sponsored the Penfold Scottish Open and Morecambe-Penfold Northern Open Championship
1935: No tournament sponsored
Penfold-Fairhaven Tournament
1934	Reg Whitcombe	England	Fairhaven Golf Club	284	Playoff (36+9 holes)	Mark Seymour	150	[31]
Penfold-Porthcawl Tournament
1933	John Burton	England	Royal Porthcawl Golf Club	292	2 strokes	Reg Whitcombe	150	[32]
1932	Percy Alliss	England	Royal Porthcawl Golf Club	278	1 stroke	Alf Padgham	150	[33]

In the 1934 tournament, both players tied on 142 after the 36-hole playoff. After a further 9 holes Whitcombe scored 34 to Seymour's 36. In 1958 there was an 18-hole playoff in which Weetman beat Bradshaw 76 to 77. In 1965 Miguel beat Platts at the third extra hole with a par 3. In 1967 Cockin beat Peach at the first extra hole with a birdie 4. In 1968 Butler beat Thomas at the first extra hole with a birdie 2. In 1972 Oosterhuis beat O'Connor at the first extra hole with a birdie 3.

References[]

External links[]

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site – 1972–74
• Results on where2golf.com
• History of Penfold Golf